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...chaotic life of screenwriter Joe Eszterhas could serve as a high-concept sequel to The Player, last year's scathing parody of movie industry manners. Fade in: A Hungarian emigre becomes a hotshot newspaper reporter in the 1960s, reinvents himself as a gonzo journalist and gets the call from Hollywood to write scripts. He clashes with studio heads and Hollywood power brokers, even the awesome Michael Ovitz, but he survives and thrives. As he turns out a succession of sexy, if not particularly smart, screenplays such as Flashdance, Jagged Edge and Basic Instinct, his fee rises to a record-breaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gonzo Screenwriter | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

Heller's other specialties include wave-packet dynamics in molecular scattering and association and the explanation of classically chaotic systems, Kirby said...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: Heller Accepts Tenured Post | 5/26/1993 | See Source »

...last time." Lyudmila Yakutin, a bank inspector in the city, was more firmly for Yeltsin: "The President must have the power, not those windbags" in parliament, she said. Yes, agreed economist Yevgeni Kozlov, Yeltsin may not be the ideal choice, but he is definitely "preferable to that chaotic Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Hurrah? | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

...system for seeing patients was, by nearly all accounts, a mess. The first floor walk-in clinic was jammed and frequently chaotic, which left students, never very trusting of the health services, frustrated and angry. Some waited half a day to see doctors. Some yelled and screamed. Some left and found treatment elsewhere, or didn't find...

Author: By Elie G. Kaunfer and Joe Mathews, S | Title: UHS: Doing More, With Less | 4/21/1993 | See Source »

...this might be surmountable if the city had stronger political leadership, but 20-year mayor Tom Bradley has assumed emeritus status even before his term expires on June 30. The chaotic mayoral race, with its 24 candidates, has so far failed to produce a leader who shows full promise of pulling together the city's four main constituencies: blacks, whites, Latinos and Asians. Antagonism among those groups has failed to soften in the year since the riots. According to a UCLA survey, while 88% of blacks and 76% of Latinos in Los Angeles were likely to support increases in spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unhealed Wounds | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

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